Surface radiation budget in the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) effort and in the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX)The surface radiation budget (SRB) and the atmospheric radiative flux divergence (ARD) are vital components of the weather and climate system. The importance of radiation in a complex international scientific endeavor, the GEWEX of the World Climate Research Programme is explained. The radiative transfer techniques and satellite instrumentation that will be used to retrieve the SRB and ARD later in this decade with the CERES are discussed; CERES is a component of the Earth Observing System satellite program. Examples of consistent SRB and ARD retrievals made with Nimbus-7 and International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project data from July 1983 are presented.
Document ID
19910051995
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Charlock, Thomas P. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Smith, G. L. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Rose, Fred G. (Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Hampton, VA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 15, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1990
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Meeting Information
Meeting: Long-term Monitoring of the Earth''s Radiation Budget